311 Claudia

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311 Claudia is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on June 11 1891 in Nice. The name was suggested to Charlois by the amateur astronomer Arthur Mee of Cardiff Wales to commemorate Mee’s wife Claudia.311 Claudia is one of the Koronis family of asteroids. A group of astronomers including Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva and Richard P. Binzel used observations made between 1998 through 2000 to determine the spin-vector alignment of these asteroids.

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apoapsis (km)

4.36901e+11

average speed (km/s)

63000.0

orbital period (μ)

1.55568e+08

periapsis (km)

4.29728e+11

absolute magnitude

9.89

discovery date

1891-06-11

discoverer

Auguste Charlois

epoch

30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)